Senior Director, Applied Global Services Business Development

Reporting to the VP AGS Business Development, this person will direct the establishment of vision and strategies to achieve Applied Materials AGS Segment financial strategy and goals.

• Formulate, coordinate and accountable for his/her segment strategy to achieve specific service market share and margin closely defined and aligned with every AGS Business Development region head and Headquarters key stakeholders (Service Business Units, Marketing and Equipment Business Management).
• Understand segment related customer roadmaps and challenges and ensure service Product Development Programs (sPDP) priorities address those challenges.

• Responsible during sPDP Phase Gates of ensuring accurate sPDP SAM/SOM in line with segment related customers’ installed base, technology roadmaps and challenges;
• Positions sPDP in line with customer/competitive landscape – drive needed campaign into the Field aligned with SBU/Marketing teams. Have commercial authority for sPDP successful positioning.
• Key contributors to red teams’ competitive analysis

• Support region-based Business Development teams for his/her segment to achieve their business objectives.
• Owns profitability/market share for his/her segment- Analyze data and ensure/recommends pricing in line for next best cousin opportunity for his segment
• Primary interface with Equipment Business Management (BM) teams involved in their segment to address WFE competitive challenges where AGS have influence (CoO/CpW commitment, productivity targets, required service positioning at time of equipment sales, competitive pricing, etc…). Work jointly to position service at time of equipment sales for First in Fab products.
• Responsible for customer experience and relationship-building during SCLA customer visits - Prepare and set tone for SCLA customer meetings aligning different parties for successful customer experience.

• 15+ years of experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership role(s), managing portfolio of products, services, and processes.
• Mandarin language skills are preferred to support collaboration with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders and facilitate effective communication across global teams.
• Familiar with segment ecosystem including key customers decision making process, business and roadmap.
• Ability to build trust as go to partner – regarded as key person within the region/organization to take critical decisions and provide inputs to grow the region business activities.
• Be able to take well thought, data driven and not always popular decisions under high pressure environment in order to drive the overall region objectives.
• Analyzing, processing and decision-making based on multidisciplinary and multi-functional data sources that could frequently be incomplete.
• Understand end-to-end complex Fab operation, different levels of complexity
• Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of the business. This includes enabling the business unit to differentiate itself from the competition
• Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company
• Demonstrated capability to plan at a horizon up to 5 years and beyond.
• Ability to connect equally well upwards, downwards and sideways in the organization
• Very strong ability to translate multi-dimensional market requirements into engineering specifications. This would also include negotiating with the various stakeholders.